The Defense Department says it completed 35 contracting-out competitions in fiscal 2005, involving nine full-fledged cost comparisons and 26 streamlined competitions and about 2,500 employees. The in-house side won all but four of those competitions, involving about 700 employees, it says. DoD says it expects savings over four to five years from those competitions—in many cases, the winning in-house bid in competitions is based on a smaller workforce—of $177 million, while it spent $20 million to conduct the competitions, on top of fixed costs of $17.5 million annually to operate the competitive sourcing program. In addition, the department says it announced but did not complete last year 14 additional competitions involving nearly 1,400 employees and that it expects to announce in the current fiscal year competitions involving about 13,300 more employees.